At this year's CEATEC JVC introduced their "handclap & gesture recognition TV", to much applause. In their demo, JVC worked the TV with a series of claps and gestures of a hand and fingers. The TV collects the sound of handclaps using the microphone on its top and distinguishes commands based on the timing and number of handclaps. To elaborate: if you clap hands twice when you are watching TV as normal, the volume control and channel icons will be displayed in the center of the screen. As the two icons turn red, you can choose and determine the icon by clapping your hands once while the desired icon is lit. The company devised the sound filter in an effort to prevent the TV from making error operations due to the sound from the TV itself and the surroundings, according to JVC. The hand gestures are identified by the camera in the TV and let the user specify an icon by locating the hand on it and click an icon by bending and extending a finger.

Even as a techie person this sounds to complicated for me, maybe I will ditch the clapping gesture for a bit and stick to the good old remote. Just a thought, what happens when you get all excited during a ball game and clap aloud to cheer the team or show the finger to the dud who missed the catch! Wonder what the JVC "handclap & gesture recognition TV" will do then!
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